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Navigation root
Nick has a concept called navigation root which provides a way to root catalog queries, searches, breadcrumbs, and so on in a given section of the site. This feature is useful when working with subsites or multilingual sites, because it allows the site manager to restrict searches or navigation queries to a specific location in the site.
This navigation root information is different depending on the context of the request. For instance, in a default multilingual site when browsing the contents inside a language folder such as www.domain.com/en, the context is en and its navigation root will be /en/. In a non-multilingual site, the context is the root of the site such as www.domain.com and the navigation root will be /.
To get the information about the navigation root, the REST API has a @navroot contextual endpoint. For instance, send a GET request to the @navroot endpoint at the root of the site:
GET /news/@navroot HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJhZG1pbiIsImZ1bGxuYW1lIjoiQWRtaW4iLCJpYXQiOjE2NDkzMTI0NDl9.RS1Ny_r0v7vIylFfK6q0JVJrkiDuTOh9iG9IL8xbzAk
The response will contain the navigation root information for the site:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
{
"title": "Welcome to Nick!",
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},
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"@type": "slate",
"value": [
{
"type": "p",
"children": [
{
"text": "This is the demo site of "
},
{
"type": "link",
"data": {
"url": "https://nickcms.org"
},
"children": [
{
"text": "Nick"
}
]
},
{
"text": " and is build with the "
},
{
"type": "link",
"data": {
"url": "https://voltocms.com"
},
"children": [
{
"text": "Volto"
}
]
},
{
"text": " frontend."
}
]
}
],
"plaintext": "This is the demo site of Nick and is build with the Volto frontend."
},
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"@type": "slate",
"value": [
{
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{
"text": "Demo"
}
]
}
],
"plaintext": "Demo"
},
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"@type": "slate",
"value": [
{
"type": "p",
"children": [
{
"text": "You can use this site to test the latest version of Nick. You can login with "
},
{
"type": "em",
"children": [
{
"text": "username"
}
]
},
{
"text": " "
},
{
"type": "strong",
"children": [
{
"text": "admin"
}
]
},
{
"text": " and "
},
{
"type": "em",
"children": [
{
"text": "password"
}
]
},
{
"text": " "
},
{
"type": "strong",
"children": [
{
"text": "admin"
}
]
},
{
"text": "."
}
]
}
],
"plaintext": "You can use this site to test the latest version of Nick. You can login with username admin and password admin ."
},
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"@type": "slate",
"value": [
{
"type": "p",
"children": [
{
"text": "This instance is reset every night so feel free to make any changes!"
}
]
}
],
"plaintext": "This instance is reset every night so feel free to make any changes!"
}
},
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},
"effective": "2022-04-02T20:00:00.000Z",
"description": "Congratulations! You have successfully installed Nick.",
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"@id": "http://localhost:8080/events",
"@type": "Folder",
"id": "events",
"created": "2022-04-02T20:30:00.000Z",
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},
{
"title": "News",
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"@id": "http://localhost:8080/news",
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"id": "news",
"created": "2022-04-02T20:22:00.000Z",
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{
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],
"@id": "http://localhost:8080",
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}